Predictors of care dependency in Alzheimer's disease after a two-year period

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 487-495

  Dijkstra, Ate ^a   Sipsma, Dick ^a   Dassen, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Care dependency; Predictors; Psychogeriatric nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033427079     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7489(99)00044-9     Document Type: Article

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